Sunday, 24 November 2013

Ye Ugly Face Clubb

These are ten members of the Liverpool Ugly Face Clubb, popular in the 18th century, the club was funded mainly by the fines of its members. If one got married they had to cash-out.

I have kept the spelling and punctuation in place as much as possible.

Members Names

Qualifications

Jos Farmer

Merch

Little Eyes one bigger than y’ other

Long Nose

Thin Lanthorn Jaws.

Bare upper Lip.

Mouth from Ear to Ear resembling a shark’s.

Rotten Sett of Irregular Teeth wch are sett off to great
Advantage by frequent laughing.

His Visage long and narrow.

His looks upon the whole extraordinary, haggard, Odd, Comick, and out
of y’ way. In short, possessed of every Extraordinary Qualifications to rend
him y’ Phoenix of y’ Society, as the like won’t appear again this 1000 years.

Capt Robt Reid,

(Dead).

Tawny Complexion.

A very low Forehead.

Wild Furious Eyes.

Monstrous Long Nose resembling a Speaking Trumpet.

Prominent Lips.

Short Chin.

Thin Visage wch when he Laughs or Grins resembles a Plough’d
Field full of Furrows or an Old Woman -------- herself.

Jno Brancker

(Dead).

Jewish Sallow Phiz

A very Prominent uneven Nose.

Little Hollow Pig Eyes.

Rotten irregular Set of Teeth resembling an old broken Saw.

On the whole very much like the Picture of King Pepper, inexpressibly
Odd and Ugly.

Wm Long,

London

Rugged Face.

A very Prominent large Nose.

An extraordinary wide Mouth.

No upper Teeth.

A large under Lip.

A prodigious long Chin, meeting his Nose like a pair of Nut-crackers.

An extraordinary Member.

Capt. David

Maitland, of Hon. Major-General Irwins Regiment, 1745.

A long thin Visage, Sallow Complexion, Lanthorn Jaw’s, a long thin
Nose, a rugged phiz, and a queer Grin, and belongs to Pharoah’s lean Kine

Matthew Strong, Mercht.

A Tawney Complexion.

A Sharp Nose.

A Flook Mouth.

Irregular bad Set of Teeth like those of an old worn-out Comb
thoroughly begrim’d.

A ghastly queer grin and Countenance, greatly set off by a long
Carotty Beard